kb/data/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedic_Dictionary_of_Mathematics-0.md

title	chunk	source	category	tags	date_saved	instance
Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics	1/1	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedic_Dictionary_of_Mathematics	reference	science, encyclopedia	2026-05-05T08:44:19.213869+00:00	kb-cron

The Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics is a translation of the Japanese Iwanami Sūgaku Jiten (岩波数学辞典). The editor of the first and second editions was Shokichi Iyanaga; the editor of the third edition was Kiyosi Itô; the fourth edition was edited by the Mathematical Society of Japan.

== Editions == Iyanaga, Shōkichi, ed. (1954), Iwanami Sūgaku Jiten (in Japanese) (1st ed.), Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, MR 0062668 Iyanaga, Shōkichi, ed. (1960), Iwanami mathematical dictionary, Edited by the Mathematical Society of Japan. Revised and enlarged (in Japanese), Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, MR 0130788 Iyanaga, Shōkichi, ed. (1968), Iwanami Sūgaku Jiten (in Japanese) (2nd ed.), Iwanami Shoten Publishers, Tokyo, MR 0241228 Iyanaga, Shōkichi, ed. (1977), Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics, Volumes I, II, hardback, translated from the 2nd Japanese edition (1st ed.), MIT Press, pp. 1750, ISBN 978-0-262-09016-2, MR 0490100 Iyanaga, Shōkichi; Kawada, Yukiyosi, eds. (1980) [1977], Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics, Volumes I, II, Translated from the 2nd Japanese edition, paperback version of the 1977 edition (1st ed.), MIT Press, ISBN 978-0-262-59010-5, MR 0591028 Sūgaku Jiten (in Japanese) (3rd ed.), Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1985, ISBN 978-4-00-080016-7, MR 0924841 Itô, Kiyosi, ed. (1987), Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics. Vol. I--IV, Hardback, Translated from the Japanese 3rd edition (2nd ed.), MIT Press, p. 2148, ISBN 978-0-262-09026-1, MR 0901762, archived from the original on 2011-06-29 Itô, Kiyosi, ed. (1993), Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics. Vol. I--II, Paperback, Translated from the Japanese 3rd edition (2nd ed.), MIT Press, p. 2148, ISBN 0-262-59020-4; paperback version of the 1987 edition Iwanami Sūgaku Jiten (in Japanese) (Fourth ed.), Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 2007, ISBN 978-4-00-080309-0, MR 2383190

== References == Dieudonné, Jean (1979), "Reviews: Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics", The American Mathematical Monthly, 86 (3): 232–233, doi:10.2307/2321544, ISSN 0002-9890, JSTOR 2321544, MR 1538996 Halmos, Paul (1981), "About books: review of Encyclopedic Dictionary of Mathematics", The Mathematical Intelligencer, 3 (3): 138–140, doi:10.1007/BF03022868, ISSN 0343-6993, S2CID 189887339